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EUROPE Great Britain: London City Airport, opened 25 years ago, plans to upgrade its departure gates, lounges and baggage services. Work will start in early 2013. Declan Collier, the airport’s CEO said: “With the investment we’re announcing today and the further infrastructure work over the next three years, we can reach our permitted capacity, maintain our high standards, and absorb some of the European air traffic from other airports in the Southeast that are beginning to feel the strain.” It is hoped that the number of aircraft movements will grow from 70 000 to 120 000 a year, with passenger numbers swelling from 3.2 million to as many as 10 million. The airport has ten airlines operating flights to some 45 cities and has grown significantly since opening in 1987.

London-Heathrow Airport has held a topping-out ceremony for the Terminal 2 satellite pier, T2B, to mark the final stage of Phase 1 of the GBP 2.5 billion project. The event signalled the completion of construction of the 522-m long satellite pier that will have 16 boarding gates and - once finished - will be connected to the main Terminal 2 by a walkway beneath the airfield. Steve Morgan, BAA’s Director of Capital, said: “We have reached a significant point in the construction of the satellite pier of Terminal 2. When completed, Terminal 2 will deliver bright, modern and practical facilities to our passengers and airlines – all part of our vision to make every journey better.” In addition to the satellite pier, there are three other key elements to Terminal 2 ,which will welcome 20 million passengers a year: • The new main terminal, which topped out in February 2012 • A new multi-storey carpark, and • The re-development of the road system connecting T2. -- Terminal 2 is due to open to passengers in 2014 and is part of the five-year, GBP 4.8 billion transformation of Heathrow that began after the opening of the GBP 4.3 billion Terminal 5 in 2008.

France: Aéroports de Paris has released details of a six-year upgrade programme for Paris- Orly Airport. A central element of the project will see the existing two terminals merged into a single facility by 2018 with the aim of drastically improving the passenger experience. The South and West terminals will be merged, a brand new international departure lounge constructed, and all terminal entrances will be redeveloped. This will amount to the addition of more than 100 000 m² of new space for passengers. -- Since 1 October 2012, Air France customers at Paris-CDG will have noticed some changes with all international flights now grouped at Terminal 2F, exclusively dedicated to European (Schengen) flights operated by Air France and its SkyTeam alliance partners. AF’s regional airlines (Brit Air, Regional, Airlinair) operate their flights at Terminal 2G. Air France says that by grouping operations, connecting channels have been made shorter, more fluid and will save customers up to 10 minutes on their connection times.

Germany: Frankfurt Airport has completed the EUR 300 million step-by-step upgrading and modernization of Pier B of its Terminal 1, started in 2006. The building, which accommodates up to 20 million passengers annually, is now compatible with EU regulations for the separation of arriving and departing passenger flows. All facilities, including retail areas and lounges, where adapted to the higher passenger volumes of modern widebody jets. Fire-protection and energy-saving systems were modernized while the Pier remained in operation at all times. The airport has opened the new Pier A-Plus of Terminal 1 on 10 October 2012 after operational tests with some 2000 ‘passengers’ were completed on eight days in September. The 185 400-m² pier will be reserved for Lufthansa passenger flights and includes five new Lufthansa lounges. The annual handling capacity of the pier is 6 million passengers. -- Pier A-Plus, one of the biggest future-oriented projects at

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Frankfurt Airport, was partially opened on 3 July 2012, when twelve security lanes for passengers with destinations in Schengen countries were commissioned

Russia: Moscow’s Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports have signed a joint resolution to merge as one airport company by the end of 2012. The move paves the way for the two airports, with a combined 2011 traffic of just under 31 million passengers, to be privatized at a later date. The two airports have formed a joint steering committee, which also includes an independent adviser from Aéroports de Paris, to oversee the merger. A major international consulting firm has also been appointed to identify potential synergies and risks. The merger and subsequent privatization - forecast to take place by mid-2014 - are anticipated to have a dramatic impact on retail conditions at the two airports. At present each airport houses multiple retailers with no exclusivity within terminals or product categories. Eugene Vasiliev, Director of Duty Free Partners at Sheremetyevo and Rex Trading at Vnukovo, said: “The single company is likely to introduce similar rents and conditions at both airports. At the moment they are very different. I think a new management company will want to appoint fewer retailers who have exclusive rights to the various product categories.” -- One or both of the airports will also gain an additional 7 million passengers later in 2012, as Domodedovo Airport reduces its traffic in preparation for runway redevelopments in 2013.

NORTH AMERICA U.S.A.: On 10 October 2012, construction work began on the new USD 160-million, two-floor Wichita Mid-Continent Airport terminal northwest of the existing building dating from 1954, which will remain in place until the new one is ready to open in 2015. The facility is designed so that up to 16 aircraft can be served from the base building with loading bridges. Planning for the new terminal began in 2001. The project is funded by a user-based fee system and a USD 53 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. The terminal will be able to handle 2 million passengers annually at twelve gates, with expansion possible by four gates that can accommodate an additional 400 000 passengers annually.

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN Peru: On 3 September 2012, Aeropuertos del Perú started construction work on the new international terminal at Pisco Airport. The PEN 153 million (USD 59 million) terminal, capable of handling 400 000 passengers annually from 2017, will be completed in 32 months. The building with a modern architecture and state-of-the-art equipment will give the airport international standard and help in decentralizing international flights in central Peru which are now handled by Lima Airport almost exclusively. It will also provide easy access for international tourists to Paracas Bay (a nature reserve) and the Nazca lines (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and will ease agricultural exports.

Chile: The Public Works Ministry (MOP) has announced a new plan that will expand the capacity of Santiago’s ‘Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport’ (AMB) in three stages. Phase 1, currently under way, is scheduled to be completed by 2017. Stage 2 would see investments totalling USD 700 million over a 15-year period by a new concessionaire. Capacity would be increased to serve 29 million passengers by 2030. The third stage would allow the terminal to serve 50 million passengers by 2045. The plan aims to turn AMB into South America’s most modern airport. AMB already has seen a huge increase in passengers flying in and out of Santiago, with an average annual growth rate of 8.6% over the last 20 years.

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Ecuador: Canada’s Aecon Group Inc. has achieved ‘Substantial Completion’ on the new Quito International Airport project as scheduled. Aecon has built the airport as part of a 50:50 joint venture with Brazil-based Andrade Gutierrez Constructores S.A. Work on the contract involved all of the critical infrastructure required to make the airport operational, including the passenger terminal, runways, taxiways, control tower, and ancillary buildings such as cargo and catering facilities, ground service facilities, as well as the supply and integration of the IT, navigation and security systems. In addition to having been granted the Substantial Completion Certificate, the airport has received the Certificate to Operate from the Ecuadorian Civil Aviation Authority. “We are immensely proud to have reached this significant milestone on this complex greenfield project,” says John M. Beck, Chairman & CEO of Aecon Group Inc. “This achievement would not have been possible without the extraordinary efforts and support of the Aecon team, our partners, lenders, and the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Canadian government agency.” The airport has been constructed for concessionaire Corporación Quiport S.A. (Quiport), in which Aecon holds a 45.5% economic stake. Aecon’s partners in Quiport are CCR S.A., Airport Development Corporation of Toronto, and HAS Development Corporation of Houston, Texas (affiliated with the Houston Airport System). Senior lenders of the project are U.S.-based Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Export-Import Bank of the U.S.A., the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as Export Development Canada. -- As previously announced by the Mayor of Quito, the airport will officially open to air traffic on 20 February 2013 to allow for the completion of third-party work on airport access infrastructure and related facilities.

ASIA-PACIFIC India: On 4 October 2012, the Union Cabinet approved the declaration of Lucknow’s ‘Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport’, of Varanasi’s ‘Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport’, and airports at Tiruchirapalli, Mangalore and Coimbatore as international airports, to fulfil the demand of State Governments, and to offer improved international connectivity, wider choice of services at competitive cost to air travellers. All these airports are capable of handling medium-capacity, long-range aircraft and are also equipped with facilities for night operations. Some already handle a limited number of international flights. Further, all works pertaining to upgrading the airports to international standards have been completed. The declaration is expected to provide impetus to domestic and international tourism and contribute to the economic development of the concerned regions. * Airports Authority of India (AAI) is going to provide international airport facilities at places with tourism potential. Recently, AAI sanctioned eight airports which will be given international status. Among these are airports like Agra, Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Lucknow, and Varanasi. The reason for providing international airport status to airports at these places is the tourism development potential there. Whether these airports would be able to attract foreign carriers is a matter of speculation. AAI Chairman V.P. Agarwal said that these places are big tourist spots and - having international airports - would promote tourism. This is why AAI will be setting up facilities required for international travel, like immigration and customs counters and personnel. Security personnel for the international operations will also be provided. AAI officials said that these airports will take at least one year to be operational with international facilities. Also, till now there is no interest from any airline operating abroad.

Pakistan: The new Islamabad Airport (to be called ‘Benazir Bhutto International’), likely to open in late 2013 or early 2014, is suffering from irregularities worth PKR 11.028 billion detected in the project by the Federal Audit Authorities. According to a report of the Auditor General, the account assessors have detected financial mismanagement worth PKR 1.076 billion, misprocurement of

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PKR 8.309 billion, anomalies worth PKR 1.44 million in construction work, and mismanagement of assets worth PKR 226.991 million during the 2006-2011 period. According to the assessors, the Civil Aviation Authority had awarded a ‘Landside Infrastructure’ contract (Package 8) to the LTH joint venture (Lagan- Technical Associate-Habib Construction) at a cost of PKR 6.852 billion without pre-qualification. The firm was also 70% behind schedule for already awarded work of Package 1, while a joint venture of a Chinese firm and a local company was not pre-qualified despite lagging behind the schedule of work already awarded to them. The CAA awarded a ‘cut and fill earthwork’ contract to a company in violation of the set criteria allowing a compensation for excavation and the separate payment for establishing an embankment from runway excavation resulting in a loss of PKR 998.008 million. Construction of the airport costing over PKR 60 billion (USD 626 million) started in April 2007, with the former President Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz laying the foundation stone. The PPP-led government renamed it ‘New Benazir Bhutto International Airport’ in 2008. The project was to be completed by 2010; however, it remained plagued with problems of water, land acquisition, and transport. The CAA Director General admitted that construction work remained slow in the past. The terminal construction contract was awarded in May 2011 and it was to be completed in 2013. This will be the first greenfield airport constructed in Pakistan. The airport will have a 180 000-m² modular terminal building which will initially be able to handle 9 million passengers a year and 15 million by 2019. There will be two 4000-m Category F runways. According to the report, the CAA split construction work of runway, taxiway, parking, roads and bridges into two packages despite pre-qualifying firms to execute work in a single package that cost PKR 412.590 million more. An over-payment of PKR 212.596 million was detected, made separately to a contractor for the transport of excavated material, though the cost of the work was already included in the main work.

Sri Lanka: Japan has given Sri Lanka a loan of JPY 42 billion (about LKR 66 billion) with the bulk of it meant for expanding Colombo’s ‘Bandaranaike International Airport’. The loan is offered on highly concessionary terms and conditions and is administered by Japan’s International Cooperation Agency. About LKR 45 billion will be loaned for the second phase of the Bandaranaike International Airport Development Project to improve and modernize facilities and build a second passenger terminal. This is aimed at coping with the increased air traffic and transforming the airport as a main commercial and business hub in the region. -- In 1999, Japan had provided JPY 12.384 billion for improving facilities of the airport, including construction of a modern departure passenger terminal that is currently in use. * Passenger movements through Sri Lanka’s main international airport rose to 6.4 million in 2011, well above its design capacity of 6 million passengers, and the state-run Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd is scrambling to add capacity. Tourist arrivals have been growing over 30% a year since a 30-year war ended in 2009. The Chairman of AASL, Prasanna Wickramasuriya, told a forum organized by Sri Lanka’s shipping academy that the airport handled 208 000 tonnes of cargo, up from 187 000 tonnes a year earlier. The airport can handle 250 000 tonnes of cargo a year. The airport can accommodated 25 aircraft movements an hour and has been experiencing congestion, especially at so-called ‘hub peaks’. Thirty three airlines now call at Colombo, and more airlines want to fly into Sri Lanka, according to Wickramasuriya. He confirmed that capacity will be upped by a million passengers a year. The airport was building a 1 million passenger domestic terminal to be completed by the end of 2012, but it will initially be used for international traffic. Private jet movements also increased by 27%, making it difficult to accommodate them, he said. They will be shifted to the small airport at Ratmalana, south of the capital. The airport firm had signed up a loan from Japan to raise passenger capacity to 12 million and cargo to 510 000 tonnes annually by 2015, he said. -- Sri

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Lanka’s second international airport near Hambantota in the deep south of the island is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2013 with an initial capacity of 1 million passengers, 45 000 tonnes of cargo, and 30 000 aircraft movements annually. A first test flight landed there on 16 October 2012 for the purpose of calibrating the navaids.

Bangladesh: On 21 August 2012, Seoul’s Incheon Airport (ICN) signed a contract to provide consulting services to Bangladesh’s New Airport Development Project after winning the bid at the ‘2012 Economic Development Knowledge-Sharing Project (KSP) for Policy Consulting to Bangladesh’ organized by Korea Development Institute (KDI). The KSP Programme, launched by the Ministry of Strategy & Finance and organized by KDI, is committed to help developing countries achieve successful results in economic growth by transferring Korean experience in development, as a way of contributing back to the international community which provided Korea with great assistance in building economic success after the Korean War via development aid from international organizations and countries. By signing the contract, ICN will be providing consulting services to Bangladesh which is developing a new airport for the capital in Bangabandhu and improving the existing Dhaka International Airport. Also, as part of the contract, a group of government officials and airport staff will be invited to share the business expertise of Incheon Airport, in order to establish a collaborative relationship around airport development.

China: On 6 July 2012, ADPI (Aéroports de Paris Ingénierie), a subsidiary of Aéroports de Paris, was officially declared the winner of an international competition to design a new terminal at Haikou’s Meilan International Airport, located on Hainan Island, the most southern part of China. The competition, organized by Hainan-Meilan International Airport Company (airport operator and subsidiary of the HNA Group, a large air transport company which has branched out into tourism, airport services, and management) called for the highest levels of architecture and engineering. Guillaume Sauvé, Président & CEO of ADPI, comments: “This success proves ADPI’s know- how in terms of airport design. Thanks to the high quality and original design put forward, ADPI made the difference in this competition, which brought together some of the biggest names in airport architecture. This is another important step in our development in China following the contract for the expansion of Chongqing Airport, secured in 2011.” -- ADPI was able to beat off its competitors: Landrum & Brown, East China Architectural Design 6 Research Institute, Guangdong Province Design Institute, Wilkinson, and even BIAD - Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (the largest design office in China). In 2011, Terminal 1 of Haikou-Meilan Airport handled almost 9 million passengers with a total capacity of 12 million passengers. Given the significant increase in air traffic expected at Haikou, the terminal will soon be saturated. Consequently, in agreement with the Chinese authorities, the airport management decided to launch a competition for the design of a second terminal (Terminal 2), located opposite Terminal 1. This new terminal should open by 2020. The competitors also had to devise a Master Plan describing the ultimate development opportunities of the airport, i.e. with the addition of a third terminal to bring the airport total capacity to 62 million passengers by 2040. The new terminal’s design had to integrate the following features: Capacity to handle 18 million passengers; authorized surface area: 250 000 to 290 000 m².

Australia: The New South Wales coalition government has approved the rezoning of the Tralee Housing Development to allow 2000 new homes in an AUD 400 million venture which the Federal Labor government says is directly under the Canberra Airport flight path and could stymie its use as a second airport for Sydney. Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says the move shows that plans by NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell for the Canberra hub to replace the need for a

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WESTERN ASIA Turkey: At almost 37.5 million passengers in 2011, Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport (IST) is nearing its capacity limits. A fourth runway is planned to double the capacity, meeting the estimated demand for the next ten years. The State Airports Authority DHMI started working on the project after Turkish Airlines requested a new runway. The project, which has been approved by the Government, will ease the burden of air traffic at Atatürk Airport and prevent delays. The project, which will safeguard the airport’s future, will be completed in one year following the tender process. The new runway will be 2500 m long and 60 m wide, according to the plan. The talks regarding the handover of a part of the airport used by the Turkish Air Force to DHMI is in the final phase, according to press reports. That part will be used as an aircraft parking apron. With the new runway and the apron extension, the number of air traffic movements at Atatürk Airport will rise to 70 aircraft per hour.

Alarko Group’s General Co-ordinator Ayhan Yavrucu said his company might be interested in joining a consortium and entering the tender for Istanbul’s third airport. “We are probably the company that has built the most airports in Turkey. We are interested in the third airport tender,” Yavrucu said at Bahçeºehir University. The company’s Contracting Group operates as a general contractor both in Turkey and abroad and carries out airport and rail system projects, large-scale infrastructure works, construction of industrial plants, business centres, hotels, hospitals and other such projects on a turnkey basis.

Iraq: The Government will invite international tenders before the end of December 2012 for the planned ‘Middle Euphrates Airport’ in Karbala according to Dr Abbas Hassani, who heads the Construction & Strategic Planning Committee in the provincial council. The new airport will have the capacity to serve 6 million passengers annually in its first phase. A number of these passengers will be pilgrims who visit the holy sites of Karbala and Najaf every year. The project will include terminal buildings, a runway, and aircraft gates. Mr Hassani said that the airport is to be developed in three phases. Passenger capacity will be increased to 12 million per year in Phase 2 and 20 million once completed. The Karbala terminal, designed by Aéroports de Paris Ingénierie (ADPi), will be built at a cost USD 42 million and have a total surface area of 45 000 m². The complete airport is expected to cost USD 3 billion over its development cycle. A joint bid by the Baghdad based Fourth Dimension Company and the British firm Copperchase recently won a USD 125 million contract to develop and expand the international airport at Najaf.

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Iran: According to Naser Rajabi, General Manager of Qeshm International Airport, a development project includes a modern terminal of 16 000 m² with boarding bridges, a new parallel runway, improving the apron, a cargo terminal and aircraft hangar, a hotel, and other facilities to serve passengers. The existing Runway 05/23 is 4225 m long. The 2000-hectare airport, located in the middle of Qeshm Island, has good potential to serve transit aircraft with fuel because there are three tanks containing 1 million litres each and six 90 000-litres tanks. – Qeshm island is a Free Trade Zone offering good business opportunities to Iranian and foreign companies for tax-free operation for up to 15 years. Passengers do not required a visa for stays of less than 14 days. To travel to Qeshm Island, travellers can fly in from Dubai. Domestic flights are offered to Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad, Esfahan, and other cities.

Afghanistan: The Government has outlines a number of priority airport projects for the coming years and the associated funding requirements. The expansion and development of international airports (Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat & Kandahar) requires USD 50 million, the expansion and reconstruction of regional airports (handling domestic and short-haul international flights) USD 55 million. Another USD 12 million is necessary to expand and develop ten domestic airfields (designed to provide a relatively low-cost and rapid response to the isolation of provincial centres due to inadequate land transport links). There are also plans to survey, masterplan, build, or reconstruct ten additional airfields (Darwaz, Sheghnan, Wakhan, Lalsarjangal, Nooristan, Rostaq, Jaghori, Ajrestan, Shiberghan, and Urgon) to integrate remote regions into Afghanistan’s economic core and allow humanitarian aid to be moved more rapidly to target areas.

U.A.E.: Options to finance development work at Dubai World Central (DWC), the emirate’s ambitious new airport project, are being studied. DWC has submitted its financing needs to Dubai’s Finance Department, which is studying the financing of projects related to Dubai Airports. DWC requires about AED 3 billion (USD 817 million) to finance its projects in 2013, according to Khalifa al- Zaffin, Executive Chairman of DWC. This includes AED 2 billion for the facilities and infrastructure for Dubai Aviation City, which is set to host the Dubai Airshow in 2013. Construction on the aviation city project is already halfway through. -- Dubai Airports, which manages both of the city’s airports, in August 2012 said cargo volumes at Dubai’s second airport rose to 56 271 tonnes in the second quarter the year, compared with 22 252 tonnes a year earlier. “Our outlook for the remainder of this year and 2013 and thereafter is very positive. There is a lot of demand on the aviation side, be it cargo or passengers. This drives a lot of growth and outspill to the economy from both Dubai International Airport and Dubai World Central,” Zaffin said. The airport, based near Jebel Ali, opened for cargo operations in 2010. Passenger operations at DWC could start in 2013.

Abu Dhabi International Airport has announced plans for a new AED 10.8 billion (USD 3 billion) terminal, which will help to boost capacity at the airport to 40 million passengers when it opens in 2017. This expansion will ensure that the airport can cope with steadily increasing passenger numbers. In 2012, the airport is expected to handle 14 million passengers. Eng. Ahmed al- Haddabi, Chief Operating Officer at ADAC, said: “With a year-to-date growth of 21.5%, ADAC is one of the world’s fastest growing airport operators. The positive performance in passenger traffic this summer reflects the attractiveness of the Emirate as a business and tourism destination with more passengers choosing Abu Dhabi International Airport as their gateway to the rest of the world. Together with Etihad’s additional flights to Bangkok and new destinations such as Lagos in Nigeria, growth is also attributed to the strong summer season that all airlines in Abu Dhabi International Airport are experiencing.”

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AFRICA Egypt: The local firm Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) has secured a new contract to build a complete airfield at Hurghada International Airport worth EGP 532 million (USD 87 million). OCI will be responsible for the airfield, including a 4000-m runway and parallel taxiway, connecting taxiways, and all airfield lighting, power supply and storm water drainage systems. The Hurghada project is estimated to take 26 months to complete. OCI specializes in building airport infrastructure and in the past ten years has completed more than USD 440 million worth of airport-related infrastructure contracts. The company is currently working on a USD 270 million contract for infrastructure work at Jeddah’s ‘King Abdulaziz International Airport’ in Saudi Arabia. The airport (HRG) is located inland, 5 km southwest of downtown Hurghada in the El Dahar district. It has just one terminal and operates domestic passenger services to Cairo and direct connections to several European destinations. Currently more than 40 airlines operate flights from the airport, with services to cities in Western and Eastern Europe and to CIS countries. The airport has undergone massive renovations to accommodate a dramatic rise in its leisure traffic.

Senegal: The new international airport serving Dakar will open in the first quarter of 2014, Prime Minister Abdul Mbaye told the country’s National Assembly in September 2012. Work on the new ‘Aéroport International Blaise Diagne’ (AIBD) began in 2007 and was originally targeted for completion in late 2011. The airport is named for Blaise Diagne, a Senegalese politician and the first African to serve in the French National Assembly, beginning in 1914. The AIBD is being developed at Diass, about 45 km from Dakar, and will have an initial operating capacity to handle 3 million passengers a year from a single runway. A second development phase could ultimately provide capacity for 10 million passengers a year with development of a second runway. The airport is being built on a site of about 4500 hectares that dwarfs the existing ‘Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport’ (AILSS) at Yoff, just 9 km from the centre of Dakar, which is overflowing its 800-hectare site. Total development cost of AIBD is estimated to be EUR 566 million (USD 725 million), funded largely by loans from a number of banks that reportedly include the African Development Bank, the French Development Agency, the West African Development Bank, and other banks from South Africa, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. ASECNA, the Agency for Air Traffic Safety in Africa and Madagascar, considers taking a stake in the operating company for the new airport.

Nigeria: The Federal Government has approved a sum of NGN 106 billion (USD 675 million) through the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to start construction of five new, world-class international airports. According to the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, her Ministry had drawn up a roadmap which had three phases in terms of implementation strategy. She said the first phase or short-term agenda was to immediately give a face-lift to Nigerian airports, explaining that this gave rise to the simultaneous remodelling and construction of eleven airports across the country. These airports include ‘Murtala Mohammed International Airport’ and the General Aviation Terminal (GAT), both in Lagos, Abuja’s ‘Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport’, and Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in Rivers State, Enugu’s ‘Akanu lbiam International Airport’, Kano’s ‘Mallam Aminu International Airport’, Calabar’s ‘Margaret Ekpo International Airport’, ‘Yakubu Gowon Airport’ in Jos, the Yola and Kaduna airports, and ‘Sam Mbakwe Airport’ in Owerri. “As at this moment, the projects have reached 80% completion and would be completed and put to use in a few weeks and months. The remaining airports will commence shortly,” she said. The Minister disclosed that at the end of the first phase, all 22 airports under the management of FAAN would wear a new and modern look.

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She further said that the second phase in the implementation strategy of the road map, which falls under the medium-term programme, would be the construction of five new international terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, and Enugu. She explained that the FEC approved the award of contracts for the immediate take-off of construction work on the terminals. “What we have today is not befitting of us as the giant of Africa,” the Minister emphasized. Princess Oduah stressed that the Government’s vision was to strive to transform Nigeria’s aviation sector into a major contribution to the nation GDP as the airports are pivotal to the actualization of the dream. She disclosed that the contracts for the construction of the five airports have a life span of 24 months while the projects were to be executed with a concessionary loan of 22 years at an interest rate of 2% with a five-year moratorium. The third phase of the implementation strategy is the Aerotropolis project, i.e. airport cities that provide clusters of businesses ranging from manufacturing, information and communication technology (ICT), she said, adding that she would soon return to China to sign contracts for the commencement of construction work on the five new terminals.

Tanzania: Five airports (Kigoma, Bukoba, Tabora, Shinyanga, and Sumbawanga) are to be upgraded and expanded to international safety standards following a loan of EUR 50 million from the European Investment Bank. The programme would improve air transport to remote parts of western Tanzania. The EIB, the European Union’s long-term lending institution, agreed to provide the EUR 50 million in long-term funding of over 20 years. According to the Deputy Minister for Transport, Athumani Mfutakamba, the five airports are very important to the country’s economy. “Upgrading the airports will encourage economic development in the country. It will support tourism growth and make air transport cheaper and easier for traders, ordinary passengers, and government officials," Mr Mfutakamba explained. He said the move will also propel the upgrading of other airports in the country, which are expected to support international airports as passenger traffic grows. Songwa Airport in Mbeya, which is expected to be officially opened soon, and Katavi will be receiving Boeing 787. They will provide a good link to international airports, he added. The Acting Director General of Tanzania Airport Authority, Eng. Suleiman Suleiman said that civil works already started at the Tabora, Bukoba and Kigoma airports. The work for the remaining two airports - Shinyanga and Sumbawanga - will begin after three months, he said. According to a press release from the European Investment Bank, upgrading of the five domestic airports will include provision of all-weather asphalt runways. The airports cannot operate during the rainy season due to gravel or grass runways. The funding will also improve passenger handling, aircraft parking, repair access roads, and provide secure perimeter fencing. Regional relief operations by the United Nations and Red Cross to Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo will benefit from improvement of Kigoma Airport. Improving these five regional airports is one of the main priorities of the Government of Tanzania’s ten year transport investment programme and will enhance the country’s limited air transport infrastructure seen as a significant obstacle to economic growth. The airport upgrading project is being jointly funded with the World Bank and is expected to be completed by mid- 2014. The scheme will compliment European Investment Bank support for air transport in East Africa through funding the upgrade and expansion of ‘Jomo Kenyatta International Airport’ in Nairobi.

Construction of the much awaited Serengeti International Airport in Mugumu town will enable foreign tourists to fly directly to Mugumu and visit the world-heritage sites of Serengeti National Park by road. “This will even encourage more tourists on short vacations to visit Serengeti National Park, because they can spend a few days before flying back to their countries,” Serengeti District Executive Director (DED) Kimulika Galikunga said in a press report. The envisaged

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Zimbabwe: The Government expects to commission Bulawayo’s ‘Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport’ by Unity Day on 22 December 2012, according to Nicholas Goche, the Transport, Telecommunications & Infrastructural Development Minister. Speaking after a tour of the airport, Goche said the contractor would hand over the project to the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) by 2 November, although the project was supposed to have been completed by June 2012, but there was a misunderstanding between CAAZ and the Finance Ministry, which had since been solved. Specialist work yet to be done includes mostly the installation of communications devices to be used in the running of the airport and the directing of landing aircraft.

South Africa: The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is looking for opportunities to manage airports in Africa in line with its strategy to become less dependent on airport tariffs for its income and to build a global brand and reputation, says Acting Managing Director, Bongani Maseko. Speaking at a recent media briefing in Cape Town, Maseko said the business model in Africa had to be different to those in Brazil and India, where ACSA has invested in airport concessions since African airports often have difficulty in raising funding for concessions, but that there was scope for management contracts and transport planning. ACSA already is involved in an airport rehabilitation project at Ndjili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. During 2011, an ACSA technical team visited the airport several times to develop an infrastructure rehabilitation programme, estimated at USD 85 million. The DRC government and the Development Bank of Southern Africa are at an advanced stage of negotiating the funding. ACSA says its role will be to compile a development framework and supervise the project. -- In February 2012, ACSA (in partnership with the Brazilian company Invepar) won a 20-year concession for the expansion, maintenance and operation of Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. The consortium will own 51% of the Guarulhos concession, with Infraero, the Brazilian airports operator, owning the remaining 49%. ACSA is to invest up to ZAR 70 million in Guarulhos by June 2013 and ZAR 420 million over the next five years to expand and upgrade its infrastructure. ACSA also has a 10% stake in a company that has a concession to manage ‘Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport’ in Mumbai, India. The first phase of a terminal for 45 million passengers is due for completion in 2013.

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